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THE BONG KONGDAILY. PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 2ND, 1998,

PIANOS FOR £10 SURPLUS CANTEEN STORES.

HOW THEY WELL BOLD.

Further evidence regarding the methods adopted for the disposal of the surplus stores of the Navy and Army Canteens Board was given last month before's Select Committee of the House of Commons, pre- uided over by Sir Frederick Banbury.

Major H. Van den Bergh, formerly an official of the Navy and Arty Chatcons Hoard, was further questioned upon a re port cade to the War Office by Mossa Rae Smith

d

Fisher проп the disposal of cantoon stock. The chairman,

purchasul July and

between

THE STRAIN OF THE TROPICS.

A FLYING MANS VIEWS.

The control of the higher brain-centres over the lower is diminished by tropical conditions of life, according to Squadron. Leader T. F. Hippon of the British Air Service, who led a discussion of the sub ject at a recent meeting of the War Sec- sion of the Royal Society of Medicine in London. The speaker first alluded to the marked effect of eye trouble due to tropi itself, he said, as a superacial irritation, cal glare Such trouble might manifest with hemlache, or si retinal fatigue, with dimness of vision at night, or as an in- to sustain accommodative and coo- ability

reading from the report, said there wore hast efforts for any length of time. He examined certain dying men in Egypt certain sales by the board to a Mr. Pollock, who showet signs of this last defect, says haniware manufacturer, through the The British Medical Journal in an abstract

of his paper.. agency of a Mr. Stanley, a vegetable grower Mr. Pollock and Mr. Stanley between them *He found in a certain group of men who | October, 1019, had complained of eye fatigue that their cigareti, cigars, candles, tinned tin power of accommodation was only about half nod meat, Husie 3,000.

and other goods to

what is should have been. The dimbility the ass

extent of

Thu

comment was more noticeable in the months of May made

that it was

was difficult to ba and June than in April. Only when there lieve.

whit

hardware manufacturer was

was marked failure of accommodation for and

A vegetable-grower wore the best people to whom to dispose of those goods. car points was the judgment disturbed; but oven seasoned pilot when bis eyes LOW- Mr. Stanley, an acquaintance of Major Van ed signs of wear und tear on account den Bergls had been in the service of the tropical glare, would admit that he no longer and on leaving the major recommend made his landings automatically as be used boarbours of £100 in respect of his to do, but had to take conscious care and delibegation, and was often filled with apprehession.

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services. In the report it was stated that behind Mr. Stanley was a syndicate, & den Bergh.

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Witness emphatically denied that he knew there was a syndicate behind Mr. Stanley, who was only a business friend, and not a

personal friend. The sales to Mr. Stanley and 31r. Follock were carried out by chief assistant, whe submitted the offers to him for approval. He had so many other things to attend to at the time that heeft it to his assistant to ascertain whether the prices offered were correct.

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The Chairman: Did you take any steps to vake inquiries about Mr. Pollock I left that to my assistant.

Was there anything you did not leave to your assistantly work took me all over the country.

Witness was questioned about giving credit to Mr. Stauloy. The rule, he said, was that goods should be sold for cash. On one occasion he gave Mr. Stanley credit because he knew the money, would be forth coming. He did not know that in some of his transactions Mr. Stanley was acting for a man who had since been committed, to prison.

The

ANDER OVER TRIFLES

*sense of

Besides the fatigue caused by best and glaro, and the irritation from insect bites, there were other tropical conditions, such as lack of nourishing food and periodic attacks of gastric disorder, which were likely to impair the higher centes' control over the lower. Thus the resident in the tropics might be unable to concentrate, or might ive way to anger over trifles. An intelligent adaptation to environment would discount these effects in time. Other predisposing factors in tropical life included the sen being always under critical observation, an exaggerated desire to maintain prestige, and the strain of keeping watch over emotions, The European in India, where the Mutiny 2830ciated

Led perhaps, with racial antipathies. was still remembered, could not forget that he was living in the midst of a potentially hostile race, and it was this which ac counted probably for the habit of English- men in India at every station to congregato in clubs. To these conditions, in the case of men in the Air Service, was added the emotional stress of an occupation which was a now adaptation of the human organism, was taken up by the individual in adult life without previous education, and was associated with danger on every occasions,

NEURLASTHENIA.

The chairman said that he desired informa. tion about the sale of 50 tons of tapioca at 23 ton, when the market price was supposed to be £5b a ton. These sales, replied witness, were eutiroly carried out by by the course of a brief discussion, Major his assistant. In the circumstances of these. W. Spencer suggested that nearaathenia sales it was not possible to take into con might explain many of the "rental or sideration the normal market-price of the nervous symptoms soon awong men on goods.

tropical service. The neurasthenic was under the sway of an emotion of which be could not get ril by than

his exercing of free will, and which paralyzed or naler. mined his judginent; he showed also a less of mental energy, or an inability to been in the tropics for a number of years, pull bimself together. The ans who bul although he returned home vigorous enough

health, often in airment of

complained and a difliculty memory wurk such as

as study for

Did you take the trouble to ascertain if Mr. Stanley was making a profit in adilition |to his commission ?—Not personally.

Questions were pas, to witness about

of

some electro-pluté, cigarette-cases capable which had fuot been manufactured at the time, wore to Cont3s. d. cach, and were sold for 3d. each. Witness replied that there must be some mistake, and the m

of holding forty cigarettes. These case lacker of concentration and genoral

some

rice minst avo. been 38. 4d. a dozen und not in taking up cloich might be required

each. The chairoan added that the cigar- ette cases were never manufactured, and Mr. Pollock claimed £1,250 from the boned in respect of ipss of protit................

The sale of some sporting outfit to Mesars, Gumage was the subject of the next series of questions by the chairman, who said that these goods were sold to Mr. Stanley, who sold them to be. Pollock, who resold them to Messrs. Gamage at a profit of 20 per cent. The reply of the witness was that the nego tiations were left to tác late Mr. Fenton, his

assistant.

Asked he could state the total sum realised on all the sales he carried out, wit ness replied he was unable to do so."Mr. Fisher, when asked the same question, wae also unable to answer it.

The Chairman: The object of the question is that we have now particulars of sales amounting to half a million sterling which scent to have been carried out in a very loose annner. One would suppose that there were other ales carried out in a similar manner, and it would be interesting to know how much money was received.

an examination,

of

him; also he inclined to pessimism. These were the symptoms of the neurasthenic. The great saving thing in the tropics was to hare some intertat invide oneself which would serve as a of cacape.

It might

take the forms of religion, family devotion, or genuine interest in work or sport. Service abroad took a MLAD

from all his former away associations and subjected him to the strain of a hot climate, and to other strains, but the worst thing it did was to leave him with considerable unoccupied spaces of time. Such conditions gradually led to a habit of introspection, which was the beginning of the neurasthenic state.

THE LIVER.

The remainder of the discussion consisted of a few remarks by several speakers on the. irritability often shown by the tropical resident. The general idea appeared to be that it was due to congestion of the liver. Squadron Leader, Rippon agreed that the liver might have much to answer for, but he still held to the view that the primary cause was a loss of psychic tone, resulting in a diminished control by the higher centres over the lower."

Colonel Hodge, referring to a Mr. Blake, usked: "Do I understand that Mr. Blake was in the position of having in his posses sion delivery orders to obtain goods to the value of quarter of a million to which ho was not entitled, and that he could have sold all over the world, and the other was sold the goods and decamped " The witness that Germany and Russia did not purchase answered that that was so. He agreed that as had been anticipated. The bulk of the Force Can- it was a very serious thing and ought never profits of the Expeditionary to have been able to happen.

Leen and the Navy and Army Canteen Boani were not trading profita but profita due to a rise in the market value; for that reason he said that all profits were to be regarded as papor protits until the business was finally wound up. -

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Armchairs, said the chairman, were sold for 33. Gd., whereas the market price was said to be 11a. to lbs; suali chairs at 39. ed., instead of 48. Od. to 78, and pianos were sold for £10, £14, and £15. A lot of these goods replied witness, were in poor condition and Ising in the open, and had to be disposed of

at once.

The chairman pointed out that the E.F.C. showed a balance of nearly £10,000,000 and asked if part of this was to be regarded as paper profits. Witcess replied that that! was so, in so far as they were sipt N.A.C. took over the

Mr. J. Robertson: You have said you were realised. When he took over goods, but

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Mr. Fenton, so that the honour or dishonour to go on buying on a falling market. is on a man who is dead and cannot answer Much of this stock turned out not to be for himself I was morally responsible. required. Once the market began to fall

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worth of goods. It was, therefore, necessary to dispose of two or three million pounds'

to adopt some other means of disposal.

Asked if he was satisfied with Major Van

Army Canteens. One of the great difficulties dos Borgh's conduct of the sales, the witness with which they had to contend was that said he could not be satisfied as his instruc they were confined was all absence of entirely to 03 inen. There tions had not been carried out.

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accountants; such as they Colonel Hodge: Do you consider there had had to create for themselves. Dur was any dishonesty on the part of Major ing the period from the signing of the Armis- Van den Berght have hut the slightest tice to the latter end of 1918 the problems suspicion of anything of that kind. were different from those which presented warket for me, and was successful. Until themselves during the war period, one shia arose I never heard any criticism of the difficulties being that officers wore against bin.. constantly asking for release, in

order to take up civil employinguit. There were alan two nnustal factors which reduced

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